Currently I’m using Joplin with Syncthing-backed file system synchronization. I’m pretty pleased with it, as I do like tagging- and Markdown-based systems....
FidoNet does still exist, but it's commonly called "fight-o-net" for a reason, as there are... some characters there.
If you do resurrect your node, I'd suggest also picking up FSXnet, as it's the second largest network, is better maintained, and has a no-politics-or-religion rule that makes it way more pleasant to be on.
Or, you know, you could call one of the BBSs out there, and make a sysop's day by being a user, as non-sysop users are not super common, at this point. You can try my BBS at http://bbs.stormbbs.com or telnet://telnet.stormbbs.com, if you'd like to see FSXnet and FidoNet in their current lives.
But there are plenty of other BBSs out there, too, and my BBS is really only special because I have an ANSI calendar with a different graphic every day that I made 370-ish graphics for. It celebrates a holiday every day.
And if you're wondering about BBS networks in general, I recently found out about https://clrghouz.bbs.dege.au/domain/list , which has way more info than I was expecting about what the available FTN networks look like.
I followed that link, and the post itself seems to not be that, no one in comments was pointing to anything that was a smoking gun on that, and someone else linked to the CEO directly saying that, no, absolutely not, it'd be bad business to do so.
Which feels weird to defend GoDaddy, because, while I haven't used them in a few years, my experience with them is that they're an awful registrar, but mostly because of how hard they make it to transfer away and how sleazy they get with sales tactics. And their ads haven't been... good, but I'd probably let that slide if they provided reliable, good service.
I'll second that. I've been using them for 4 or 5 years, and have been pleased.
There even was a day where there was an outage for my server, and they made it right by giving everyone credits roughly equal to 3 years of service or something. I thought that was overkill, and I guess they'll take a loss on it, but... the instincts are nice. It seems like a place where it's some dude taking care of servers, rather than a giant corporation who is more focused on extracting money than providing a great service for a reasonable cost.
Ivan ‘Ironman’ Stewart’s Super Off Road is a 1989 arcade release that plays kind of like a fancy Super Sprint. It’s a single screen game where three players race their trucks over a number of courses, picking up nitro and money, and upgrading their vehicles between races. It’s fast, goofy, chaotic and a lot of fun. The...
As a child playing this, I got to be decent at the arcade version (biggest hint is to not use nitros, unless doing so would directly result in winning, because otherwise the computer starts speeding up because of them.), and would happily play for an hour on only a few tokens.
And, yeah, it was fun that steering was, "...and now go spin as fast as possible, and grab onto the steering wheel to stop when the truck has turned the correct direction."
It wasn't really accurate, but I liked Super Mario Kart (SNES) and Stunts (PC) for driving things, and a certain amount of unreality was part of what made them fun.
But this post was about the console versions of it, none of which I was able to get into, probably because of it not being like the arcade.
All the same, it's a bit of a white whale for Lynx, and I'd jump at the chance to own it for any moderately-reasonable price. Even though, obviously, I'd want to own four copies for the one random time when I had enough interested people together in the right place to play the game.
Speaking as a noob trying to see if I can respond from another server... Hi!
I spun up an instance for a friend group, to test it out, and while I think no one has a real clue what's going on, it's nice to have something new and positive. And since I or a friend control the server, no worries on the perverse incentives of the internet giants.
So, yeah, hopefully we can learn, and hopefully the ecosystem can grow.
Well this is a bummer. (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
cross-posted from: pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/…/644714117958012013...
What's your favorite note-taking application?
Currently I’m using Joplin with Syncthing-backed file system synchronization. I’m pretty pleased with it, as I do like tagging- and Markdown-based systems....
Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) (lemmy.whynotdrs.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473...
Looks like google domains is no more. (lemmyonline.com)
https://lemmyonline.com/pictrs/image/6dfbbd60-8363-4648-afdc-2ec7373173b9.png...
Looking for a email-provider where i can host my own domain (feddit.de)
Not really about selfhosting, but I read that a lot of selfhosters do not selfhost their emails. Should have pop/imap....
Super Off Road: A home port comparison (lemmy.world)
Ivan ‘Ironman’ Stewart’s Super Off Road is a 1989 arcade release that plays kind of like a fancy Super Sprint. It’s a single screen game where three players race their trucks over a number of courses, picking up nitro and money, and upgrading their vehicles between races. It’s fast, goofy, chaotic and a lot of fun. The...
~~Almost~~ OVER 90% of the accounts on lemmy are now bot accounts!!
Here you can see 2 day old post warning about the danger of not using email/captcha verification: https://lemmy.ml/post/1345031...
Lemmy's total users continues to soar from 240k yesterday to 360k today! Basically quadrupling in the past 4 days (lemmy.world)
Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7